European CoP on Standardisation of Competency related objects

Standardisation of Competency related objects seems to be an upcoming field of interest that justifies a SIG within the pre-standardisation activities of CEN WS-LT. The ideas was launched at the pre-workshop meeting of WS-LT in Berlin, April 2009. There are a number of projects exploring "Comptencies", e.g., ICOPER, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 WG3, the ELM project withing WS-LT, CETIS and others.

Objective and Activities

Main Objective (suggestion): To promote a common European understanding and practice regarding competencies i relation to schools, academic, life long and professional learning.

This will be accomplished by:

• Providing an overview of outcomes of key projects in this area, who is dealing with what issues related to competencies (competency map in the area)
• Bringing in user requirements identified by the different research projects, the business world, national groups, and by individual experts
• Developing a common understanding of the different competency models developed in the area using modelling and semantic technologies to link and compare them e.g. Connect these different maps through their main concepts in different contexts (contexts are the different maps, groups, standard organizations, projects, situations, purposes: where it can be used by whom, when, where, why, what for, ownership of the model)
• Attaching usecases, scenarios, good practices, failures, etc.
• Creating an alert system on trends, emerging topics, and concepts, showing at the same time the evolution of such concepts
• Providing recommendations for harmonization

Tools

We use this wiki. (Be aware of the alert features of the wiki. You could choose to be alerted via mail on every change/update on the wiki).

For a e-mail reflector, there is now a JISC mail list - see http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SKILL-COMPETENCE - you are encouraged to subscribe to this.

The ICOPER project is now building a Discourse Tool (combining Mediawiki with Cmap Tools). This might be a place for the SIG to go for discussions.

Meetings: Should we organise a FlashMeeting in the near future on a particular issue, e.g., coming out of the projects (ICOPER, Prolix, TenCompetence or others)? Any ideas of other SIG f2f meeting opportunities, piggybacked on an ICOPER/Prolix/WS-LT... event?

Community building tools

• #competencysig is the tag we will use.
• There is also a Twibe at http://www.twibes.com/group/competencysig

Resources

The SIG is established in the as a result of the preworkshop seminar on Requirements for Competency standardisation coorganised with the ICOPER project.

• Presentation from the seminar
  at CEN/ISSS WS-LT meeting in Berlin, 27 April 2009
• ICOPER Suitability Report for Better Practice: [*Report of study of learning needs building blocks and the standards to be used*|^D2.1_Final.pdf] (June, 2009)
• Outputs of the Berlin Symposium on Competencies, organised by the ICOPER project in December 2008.

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